Media: Eurosport acquires the media rights to the Youth League, a new competition organised by UEFA

Eurosport has acquired media rights to the new UEFA's (Union of European Football Associations) Youth League for the 2013-15 period, on the 11/09/2013. Under the agreement, Eurosport will produce the first-pick matches (including the semi-finals and final) and broadcast them across its pan-European network of channels (Eurosport or Eurosport 2).

As from the semi-finals, the UEFA Champions League rights-holders in the countries of the participating teams will have the possibility to acquire the media rights to the matches co-exclusively with Eurosport.

"UEFA is delighted to announce Eurosport as the first rights-holder of the 2013-15 UEFA Youth League. UEFA is looking forward to working with Eurosport in order to build and promote this newly-created competition," said Guy-Laurent Epstein, marketing director of UEFA Events SA on the 11/09/2013.

The Youth League is a new club competition for under 19 teams of the 32 qualified teams of the Champions League. It was officially created on the 06/12/2012. The first meeting live broadcast on Eurosport will oppose Manchester United at Bayer…